The UK MBA programme list: High Wycombe to Liverpool

Career goals: Fernando Maisonnave travelled to Liverpool to undertake a second MBAPETER POWELL

Case study: On your head!Fernando Maisonnave left Brazil for Liverpool with one goal in mind — to get a job in the football industry.

With a degree in computing science, Maisonnave had worked in IT in Brazil but soon realised he needed to learn more about business, finance and marketing to get ahead. So he took an MBA.

But one wasn’t enough. In order to follow his passion for the beautiful game he had to make a transition. And the way to do that for the then 31-year-old was the football industries MBA at the University of Liverpool Management School.

“One of the most valuable things about the MBA is that it has people from different countries with different backgrounds — my cohort of 21 students…